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Wah Wah Springs we followed the road almost due west across Pine Valley to Potsum Paw Springs, then west on the so-called "Old Bailey Wood Road," between the Indian Peak and Mt. Home Range leading into Hamblin Valley. We went to Frisco for our supplies most of the time. It required about five days to make the trip. We shipped our rams to Frisco and to take them, two or three outfits would double up and drive the rams to their destination, accompanied by a commissary wagon. About rams many of the sheep outfits fed their rams grain while they were in the herd. They called them out verbally to come for their grain. About 1902-1908, Jack Patterson of Beaver home-steaded Potsum Paw Springs and he lived there in a cabin, charging the sheep men for watering their sheep there. That was in the fall and spring when there wasn't any snow.
In the years of 1904 and 1905 N. S. Nielsen of Mt. Pleasant leased the spring from Mr. Patterson. Mr. Nielsen at that time was operating six herds of sheep and I was herding for him, Mr. Carl Nielsen says. The Fairview Co-op and many individuals from Sanpete, Sevier, Juab and Garfield Counties have used the winter range of Beaver County for their sheep, according to Carl Nielsen. The term "transient herds" applied to herds from out of the state of Utah. He says the Snake Valley "Nevada side" herds came into Utah for part of the winter. They were regarded as transients. There was, he says, William and Heber and Frank Crane of Herriman and Riverton, who ranged their sheep in Idaho and Wyoming, then came down to the West Range of Beaver County to winter their sheep, and they were called transients. There used to be a practice of trailing sheep part-way to market. For example, in the late 90's and early 1900's, before the days of marketing the lamb crop in the fall, wether lambs were held until they were 2 and 3 years old before marketing them.

Wah Wah Springs we followed the road almost due west across Pine Valley to Potsum Paw Springs, then west on the so-called "Old Bailey Wood Road," between the Indian Peak and Mt. Home Range leading into Hamblin Valley. We went to Frisco for our supplies most of the time. It required about five days to make the trip. We shipped our rams to Frisco and to take them, two or three outfits would double up and drive the rams to their destination, accompanied by a commissary wagon. About rams many of the sheep outfits fed their rams grain while they were in the herd. They called them out verbally to come for their grain. About 1902-1908, Jack Patterson of Beaver home-steaded Potsum Paw Springs and he lived there in a cabin, charging the sheep men for watering their sheep there. That was in the fall and spring when there wasn't any snow.
In the years of 1904 and 1905 N. S. Nielsen of Mt. Pleasant leased the spring from Mr. Patterson. Mr. Nielsen at that time was operating six herds of sheep and I was herding for him, Mr. Carl Nielsen says. The Fairview Co-op and many individuals from Sanpete, Sevier, Juab and Garfield Counties have used the winter range of Beaver County for their sheep, according to Carl Nielsen. The term "transient herds" applied to herds from out of the state of Utah. He says the Snake Valley "Nevada side" herds came into Utah for part of the winter. They were regarded as transients. There was, he says, William and Heber and Frank Crane of Herriman and Riverton, who ranged their sheep in Idaho and Wyoming, then came down to the West Range of Beaver County to winter their sheep, and they were called transients. There used to be a practice of trailing sheep part-way to market. For example, in the late 90's and early 1900's, before the days of marketing the lamb crop in the fall, wether lambs were held until they were 2 and 3 years old before marketing them.